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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.
Vol. II.] THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1855. [No. 8.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
July 24th, 1855.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following despatches, for general information.
By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.
Superintendent’s Office, Wellington,
26th June, 1855.
Sir,—I trust that it is unnecessary for me to apologize for again pressing upon His Excellency’s attention the very unsatisfactory state of the financial relations at present existing between the General and Provincial Government of this province, or for pointing out to His Excellency the grievous hardship to which this Province is subjected, and the embarrassing position in which the Provincial Government is placed, by His Excellency delaying the payment of the sum of six thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight pounds, fourteen shillings, and eight pence, acknowledged to have been due to it on an adjustment of the public accounts for the nine months ended on the 30th of June, 1854.
Permit me briefly to recapitulate certain facts:
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Under Sir George Grey’s financial arrangements of the 8th August, 1853, the accounts between the General and Provincial Governments were to have been adjusted at the end of each quarter. Sir George Grey’s instructions, however, have been wholly disregarded, and up to the present time the General Government has not furnished any statement of accounts intelligible to any one of the provinces, for it is notorious that they are one and all protesting against the proceedings of His Excellency’s Government in regard to the finances of the Colony.
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This neglect of the General Government was, even so far back as the meeting of the General Assembly, felt to be fraught with such serious injury to the Provinces, that the House of Representatives appointed a Select Committee to investigate the public accounts; but
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1855, No 8
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- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary
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- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary